Precious

The Academy Nominee Movie Precious, rather than being a simple film, is a dramatic and crude history. Precious is a movie that presents a piece of reality at the 80’s. The movie presents many violent and cruel scenes, something very hard to many people. Maybe the film director used this form to express all the events of the movie to educate the viewer to ‘delete’ these actions that can be seen today. Precious is a movie to open the eyes of those who have closed today.

Claireece P. "Precious" Jones is the main character of the film. She’s an abused girl in a mental and physical way, and lives with her mother. Precious is constantly hit it with words and objects by her progenitor, who does not valorize her. All these factors make her be a girl with low self-esteem. She was violated twice by her own father becoming pregnant acquiring a disease on the second encounter. Precious have never has a stable live because all these events that make her see the live like something cruel to her, adding that she is obese.

On the movie, we have another main character that can be seen like the antagonist. Mary, her mother, is a woman that does not demonstrate any care of love to her daughter Precious, just insults, constant discrimination and lack of respect. Mary is an unemployed and abusive mother that wants kill her own daughter after known that the second baby that Precious was a product of a violation by her dad, or like she says: “my man”. She never takes cares of anybody except her own or her husband, Precious’ dad.

Adding more bad things to Precious’ life is her father: Carl. He can be described as a mental sick, negligent and abusive person. He makes incest with his daughter, a person who does not care. Carl is the hangman behind Precious traumas because he destroys the life of his own daughter and her mental health. Besides, he was AIDS, a disease that took his life. Because of that, Precious acquires HIV and when she discovered, it was awful because was infected by her own father.

Making a dramatic change, we have the teacher of Precious, the angel of this film. Ms. Blu Rain represents the hope and a change on life of Precious bad experiences. Ms. Blu Rain helps Precious construct a new morality, a new value of her own and who a person can be resilient. Precious was motivated be her and her friends on the school, that represents an escape valve for her. It can be mention that Ms. Blu Rain is the road or the light at the end of Precious’ road.

Watch the movie for me was very interesting and shocking because I have never see a violent and abuse patter so close and real. I still can believe that a mother may abuse of her own daughter and grandson just for a man. On my mind, all the moments where Precious and her mother Mary fights are very present. I feel very proud by Precious because she is a strong person that living a nightmare could wake up with the head held hide.